Alfredo Jaar Infinite Cell

dimensione ambiente/dimensions variable

Alfredo Jaar trained in the spheres of architecture and cinema and employed their instruments in his work, which privileged attention to the themes of political oppression and social marginalization. Bringing subjects that were apparently extraneous into the art system, the artist put his own self-referentiality in doubt and, at the same time, made use of the communication circuit connected to it to make a growing public more aware of these themes. During his early years, which he lived under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, he was particularly engaged in analyzing media rhetoric and the power of information manipulation, until he moved to New York in 1982. Shortly before he left, he installed an environmental work that went the length of Chile from North to South: a line of small national flags divided the country in two and reached the sea, a representation of the deep fracture in Chilean society at that time in history.

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D. Denegri, Il teatro del dubbio, in Alfredo Jaar. Che cento fiori sboccino, exhibition catalogue (Rome, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma), Rome 2005, p. 86. Alfredo Jaar. SCL 2006, exhibition catalogue (Santiago de Chile, Fundación Telefónica), Barcelona 2006. N. Schweizer (ed.), Alfredo Jaar. La politique des images, exhibition catalogue (Lausanne, Musée Cantonal de Beaux-Arts), Lausanne 2007. B. Pietromarchi, G. Scardi (eds.), Alfredo Jaar. It is difficult, exhibition catalogue (Milan, Hangar Bicocca), Mantua 2008.

Foto Roberto Marossi

Purchased from Lia Rumma, Naples

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